novalis comments on What are you working on? December 2011 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: jsalvatier 13 December 2011 03:27PM

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Comment author: novalis 14 December 2011 06:17:08PM 2 points [-]

I'm only interested in hiring good programmers, rather than typical programmers.

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 14 December 2011 10:43:39PM 1 point [-]

Do you also pay far above average wages? If not, you should be careful of what trade-offs you are making. If you demand above-average performance in some areas (eg algorithms), then you'll on average get below-average performance in other areas (for a fixed wage), at least to the extent that hiring markets are reasonably efficient.

Comment author: novalis 14 December 2011 10:52:30PM 3 points [-]

We offer above-average benefits, including one that is very difficult to others to compete with: we write almost entirely free and open source software.